Egypt and the Christian crusade . r sex, save in the cases of their own in-timate relations, and never see a strange manwithout the motive of marriage. The de-graded view of womanhood taken by womenthemselves, of course, reacts upon the men. Tothem a woman is desirable solely on account ofher sex, and any ideal of chivalry, so potent anelement in the noblest manhood, becomes im-possible in the Moslem social state. And thisfalse relation between husband and wife makesitself felt in the bringing up of children. Theearly years of childhood, perhaps the mostcritical in a whole life, are tainted by
Egypt and the Christian crusade . r sex, save in the cases of their own in-timate relations, and never see a strange manwithout the motive of marriage. The de-graded view of womanhood taken by womenthemselves, of course, reacts upon the men. Tothem a woman is desirable solely on account ofher sex, and any ideal of chivalry, so potent anelement in the noblest manhood, becomes im-possible in the Moslem social state. And thisfalse relation between husband and wife makesitself felt in the bringing up of children. Theearly years of childhood, perhaps the mostcritical in a whole life, are tainted by the cor-rupt influences of the harem, where the boylearns that sensual attitude towards womenwhich is the curse of his after life, and thegirls acquire those abandoned notions of therequirements of the opposite sex which spoilher for the highest functions of refining power of a lady is seldom pos-sessed or exercised in the East. The restrain-ing and purifying influence of wife on hus- SV ^y V ^ « V \i ?1 >t \.
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